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1020 “Opting out of the Great Inflation: German monetary policy after the break down of Bretton Woods” by
| العنوان: | 1020 “Opting out of the Great Inflation: German monetary policy after the break down of Bretton Woods” by |
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| المؤلفون: | Andreas Beyer, Vitor Gaspar, Christina Gerberding, Otmar Issing, Alfred Guender, Lars Jonung, Athanasios Orphanides, Werner Roeger, Franz Seitz, Lars Svensson, Guntram Wolff |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=226. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Key Words, Inflation, Price Stability, Monetary Policy, Monetary Targeting, Policy Rules |
| الوصف: | During the turbulent 1970s and 1980s the Bundesbank established an outstanding reputation in the world of central banking. Germany achieved a high degree of domestic stability and provided safe haven for investors in times of turmoil in the international financial system. Eventually the Bundesbank provided the role model for the European Central Bank. Hence, we examine an episode of lasting importance in European monetary history. The purpose of this paper is to highlight how the Bundesbank monetary policy strategy contributed to this success. We analyze the strategy as it was conceived, communicated and refined by the Bundesbank itself. We propose a theoretical framework (following Söderström, 2005) where monetary targeting is interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation expectations. We derive an interest rate rule and show empirically that it approximates the way the Bundesbank conducted monetary policy over the period 1975-1998. We compare the Bundesbank's monetary policy rule with those of the FED and of the Bank of England. We find that the Bundesbank's policy reaction function was characterized by strong persistence of policy rates as well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response to the level of the output gap was not significant. In our empirical analysis we use real-time data, as available to policy-makers at the time. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.212.3160; http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=226 |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.212.3160 http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=226 |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.43F3277B |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |